Waranara ELC
Recognition
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NSW Architecture Awards (AIA)
Interior Architecture Award
Winner 2018
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Australian Urban Design Awards
Built Projects (Local & neighbourhood scale / as part of the Former South Sydney Hospital Site – Stage 1)
Winner 2018
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NSW Architecture Awards (AIA)
Educational Architecture
Commendation 2018
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Australian Interior Design Awards
Public Design
Shortlist 2018
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World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards
Future Education Projects
Shortlist 2016
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Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)
Institutional
Shortlist 2018
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The Plan Award
Shortlisted
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An early learning centre where in-door/outdoor play meets refined detailing and a child-friendly, fun material palette. It caters to some pretty demanding customers – children aged 6 weeks to 6 years.
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Adaptation of an outpatients building at the old South Sydney Hospital adds a new wing, to the reimagined building. A wraparound verandah links the two, offering a series of different play spaces, inside and out. Careful consideration was given to both the child and career experience.
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Designed to surprise and delight, the Centre also reinterprets the site history.
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Original interiors are now light-filled open playrooms, courtesy of skylights fitted into with existing roof cowls, with exposed steel trusses to outline the existing building. The old building is punctuated wth openings onto the verandah, extending play outdoors, but still undercover.
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A playful interior palette blends the warmth of plywood with colour accents.
A wraparound verandah extends plays spaces outdoors.
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Internally, old and new are unified using a base palette of plywood and timber-panelled joinery, with colour highlights. Where possible, original materials are repurposed in the Centre: bricks and timber became paving and cladding. Sustainable design will ensure the Centre’s longevity and reduce its running costs.
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- Architecture & Interiors Studio Johnston
- Builder IQON
- Structural SDA Structures
- Landscape JILA
- Photography Brett Boardman